In ways that the Indian media has made quite safe to foresee, 2018 is set to be a predictable year for political stories. What would become clear in the coming months is that 2018 wouldn’t be about 2018; it would definitely be about 2019.
In a country offering the electoral platter as the staple diet of political journalism, it doesn’t even warrant sticking one’s neck out to predict that 2018 would be consumed in anticipating 2019 – in playing usherer to the year of general elections. In all likelihood, the year would be wasted in serving subtexts to the epic.
